Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform... Read more
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a presolicitation to lay out its technical reachback operational support needs. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says DTRA wants potential contractors that could help develop weapons of mass dest... Read more
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has partnered with DXC Technology on a multiyear effort to field a new enterprise asset management system designed to plan, monitor and facilitate public transit maintenance operations. The Tyso... Read more
Charles River Analytics has developed an open-source interface that employs a hybrid reality approach to military medical training and education. Virtuoso is based on a multimodal interface to allow natural human interactions within virtual and... Read more
Intelsat and satellite communications services provider COMSAT have partnered to market a broadband connectivity offering to U.S. government aircraft operators and coalition partners. COMSAT will add the FlexAir managed service to the company... Read more
Recorded Future has been authorized to offer its threat intelligence platform to support the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. The Somerville, Mass.-based firm said Thursday its machine learning-bas... Read more
An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with an unmanned underwater vehicle. L3 OceanServer said Thursday it will supply its Iver3 UUV to help Marine Corps Systems Command carry out evaluation and t... Read more
Northrop Grumman has evaluated a motor for the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft through a ground-firing test held at its Promontory, Utah-based facility. The abort motor fired upward for five seconds with flames going approxi... Read more
A new study by Deloitte and the Data Foundation predicts the federal government may face challenges in implementing a law to establish an open data set to improve federal spending transparency, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The stud... Read more
NASA aims to partner with U.S.-based companies to design and develop new reusable landing platforms designed to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface. The agency said Friday it plans to begin testing of new landers on the moon in 2024 throu... Read more
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Space Vector have teamed up to design, manufacture and integrate a suborbital launch vehicle under the U.S. Air Force’s Sounding Rocket Program-4. The industry team will build the rocket to support tests... Read more
Omega Aerial Refueling Services intends to purchase new aircraft and take out from storage its Boeing-built KC-707 and KDC-10 tankers as the U.S. Air Force looks to industry for additional tanker services, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. “... Read more
Lockheed Martin will provide software development and help desk support for the U.S. Army under a potential two-year, $40.4M contract. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes product updates, analysis, design, integration, testing, fielding an... Read more
The Department of Energy plans to award a five-year, $100M contract to fund the establishment of a research and development center that will focus on developing systems designed to remove salts from water. DOE said Thursday its Energy-Water Desa... Read more
Virgin Galactic’s Piloted Spacecraft Carries NASA Tech Payloads in Suborbital Flight Test
Virgin Galactic has completed a flight test of a company-built manned space vehicle carrying four NASA technology experiments to suborbital space. The agency said Thursday SpaceShipTwo‘s payloads were designed to examine the behavior of du... Read more